At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.