We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

The thing I fear most is fear.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

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.