Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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