The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.