Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

War is not women's history.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.