Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.