The more you judge, the less you love.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.