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

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.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.