The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

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

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.