We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.