Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

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

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

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

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.