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.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Finance is a slave's word.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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