Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.