Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

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

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

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

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

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.