It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.