women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.