Prayer is the life of the soul.
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.