A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.