Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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.