If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.