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.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

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".

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