Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Life alone can rekindle life.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.