Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious..

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature..

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests..

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination..

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose..

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere..

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end..

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream..

It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them..

Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling w….

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves..

My religion of life is always to be cheerful..

Caricature is rough truth..

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay..

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay..

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered..

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by..

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power..

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life..