Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

I will be lord over myself.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.