"Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?"

“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”

“You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.”

“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”

“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”