One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.–“Wanda
Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfillment.
There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.–“Wanda
Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.–“Wanda
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.
I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?–“Wanda
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. “Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?” said that mute caress.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.