Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.