A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Love is the poetry of the senses.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.