The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

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

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.