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

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

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.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

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

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? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

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