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.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.