Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.