A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.