[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

Who understands much, forgives much.

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.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.