Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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.

When women love, they forgive everything...

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?