Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny..

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things..

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared..

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous..

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this..

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee..

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine..

I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famo….

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so..

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes..

Every life is a profession of faith..

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth..

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle..

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender..

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals..

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes..

What we do not understand we have no right to judge.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally..

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence..

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It….

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret..