Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.