I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

God: personified incomprehensibility.