Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.