Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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?

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.