With monuments as with men, position means everything.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.