We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.