Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Manners form the great charm of women.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.