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

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.