The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one..

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all..

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering..

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des ….

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman..

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live..

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice..

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class e….

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of disc….

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world..

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion..

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering..

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for i….

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them..

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character..

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylu….

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it..

The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there ….

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent..

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it..