“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.”