Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

honesty dies in selling itself.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.