The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.