To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Patriotism corrupts history.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.