To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.