Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.