Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

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

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.