Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.