Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

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

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

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