Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

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

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

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?

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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