Occupation: Writer Birth: January 25, 1746 Death: December 31, 1830
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again..
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!.
Do not sanction an absurdity..
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others..
How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not..
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all..
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue..