A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.