The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.