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.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.