Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.