Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.