The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. - Marguerite de Valois . View more images...

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. - Marguerite de Valois . View more images...

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. - Marguerite de Valois. View more images...