When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.