An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

As a woman, we should all stop talking about it and just acknowledge what's happened and act like we own the space, because we do.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

All art is knowing when to stop.