A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.