If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.