If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke.

Skin is really important; after all, it's my business.