All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be ….

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in ….

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage..

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time t….

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers..

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through th….

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole..

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of a….

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

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct..

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like tha….

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues..

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought..

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of l….

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man..

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true..

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and thei….

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my….

There are words which cut like steel..

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea..