From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
God made only water, but man made wine.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment’s glance.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.