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.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.