Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.