However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.