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.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

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

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.