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.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.