In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

The egotism of woman is always for two.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

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