Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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.