The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
Words express only the feelings we know already.
marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
there are no nationalities in heaven.
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.