You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves. — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image