Art is much, but love is more.

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.