There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.