Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.