“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”