Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Who understands much, forgives much.