Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!