“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Great“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.”
Mom“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Great“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
Death“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
Peace“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
Legal“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
Finance“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
Great“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
Love“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
Great“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
Smile“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
Future“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Anniversary“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
Beauty“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
God“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
Great“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
Nature“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Friendship