To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?