Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.

Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.