When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

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.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.