"With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm."

"Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory."

"I am writing a novel, and I don't know how it will end."

"A man without a homeland is a tree without roots."

"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool."