A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

All the world loves a lover.