Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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