I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.