A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

The history of a man is in his character.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.