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

Love is the symbol of eternity.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

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

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

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

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.