Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.