“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Inspiration and genius – one and the same.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.