Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.