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

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Love which economizes is never true love.