Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

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

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.