A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?