It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.