No woman dares express all she thinks.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.