Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

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.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.