If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

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

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

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.

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.