Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.