It is only time and patience that can bring back men's minds to a healthy state.

It is a war of opinions, and one which is still far from being terminated.

It is only the justice of our cause and the feeling of a good conscience that can support us ...
My most sincere wish is that you may never meet with ingratitude.

My own melancholy experience proves to me that, of all evils, that is the most terrible." Yet no indignation at the thanklessness of the Parisians could chill her constant benevolence toward them; and amidst all the anxieties which filled her mind for herself, her husband, and her child, she founded an asylum for the education of a number of orphan daughters of old soldiers, and found time to give her careful attention to a code of regulations for its management.[10] Meanwhile circumstances were gradually paving the way for her accepting the help of him who, during the earliest discussions of the Assembly, had been, not so much through his own malice as through Necker's folly, her worst enemy.

We have seen how, immediately after the attack on Versailles, Mirabeau had once more endeavored to find an opening through which to place himself at her service.