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

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!