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

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

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

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.