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

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

One can buy anything with money except morality.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?