What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.