Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

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

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

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.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.