Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.