All our tastes are but reminiscences.

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

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

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.