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

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

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