One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits..

It is never permissible to say, I say..

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them..

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them..

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths..

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed..

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave..

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world..

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking tha….

Elegance is exquisite polish..

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt..

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak..

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words..

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence ….

The more heart, the more sorrow..

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid..

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition ….

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man..

Love is the pass-key to the heart..

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated t….

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it..