"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle." — Heinrich Heine

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.