Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

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

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.