A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.