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.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.