To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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