Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.