The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.