The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned