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- When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anna Jameson
- A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. — Anna Jameson
- What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. — Anna Jameson