“When one must fight, one had better do it without hesitation, according to his own nature.”

“In accord with Nature’s Laws, nothing is more right than the preservation of one’s own race.”

“The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one’s own nature.”

“No one makes the heart of a little home circle entirely their own, without some very sweet gifts of nature — we must love to be beloved.”

“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”

“If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.”

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

“But greatly his most important culture he had gathered — and this, too, by his own endeavors — from the better part of the district, the religious men; to whom, as to the most excellent, his own nature gradually attached and attracted him. He was religious with the consent of his whole faculties. Without religion he would have been nothing.”

“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”

“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”