Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

There are words which cut like steel.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

To speak of love is to make love.