"For my part, I remained a close prisoner, without a visit from a single person, none of my most intimate friends dari…"

"Besides, I had found a secret pleasure, during my confinement, from the perusal of good books, to which I had given m…"

"Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui."

"To weep is not always to suffer."

"If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of oth…"

"Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue."

"He who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly."

"At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East. Some of us…"

"Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth, And of Serb blood and heritage, And comes not to the Battle of Kosovo, May he ne…"

"Bitter was the tsar’s curse to hear; aye! and a word of woe: "Who comes not to the battle with me at Kósovo, Let noth…"