Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?