Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself