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

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point