Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.