Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.