Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Speech happens to not be his language.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.