It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.