Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.