It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Every country has the government it deserves.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

A child is an angel dependent on man