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.

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.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

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

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

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

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.