Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.