The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.