Those who trust us educate us.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.