Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.