You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.