the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.