Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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