A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.