One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.