In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The world belongs to those with the most energy.

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.