You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

honesty dies in selling itself.

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.