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

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

Who understands much, forgives much.

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

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

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.