"Que l'on était bien à plaindre quand on avait besoin du secours de la religion pour se conduire , et que c'était la m…"

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful."

"Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait."

"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion."

"The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love."

"Glances are the first billets-doux of love."

"When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered."

"A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment."

"A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told."

"It is the opinion of men that makes the reputation of women."