La religion n'est rien si elle n'est pas tout, si l'existence n'en est pas remplie. - Germaine de Staël

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

There is perhaps too much freedom in Protestantism to satisfy a certain religious austerity, which may seize upon the man who is overwhelmed by great misfortunes; sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.