With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

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.

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.