In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.