If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.