"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…"

"Le beau billet qu'a La Châtre!"

"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."