It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.