Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.