Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

The soul is one with its faith.