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.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.