Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.