Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.