It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

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.