We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

- Heloise

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

- Heloise

Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's grea…

- Heloise

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage…

- Heloise

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

- Heloise

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

- Heloise

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

- Heloise

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it…

- Heloise

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I sha…

- Heloise