Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

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.