Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.