Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.