To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

To think of losing is to lose already.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?