Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

I am my own heaven and hell!

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.