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

"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.