Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.