Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?