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.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

[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.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.