[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing …

- Elisabeth Of Wied

It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who…

- Elisabeth Of Wied

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from l…

- Elisabeth Of Wied

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an …

- Elisabeth Of Wied

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres …

- Elisabeth Of Wied

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

- Elisabeth Of Wied

Tis the ignorant who boast.

- Elisabeth Of Wied

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

- Elisabeth Of Wied

Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.

- Elisabeth Of Wied