We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.