Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.