What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Stupidity is without anxiety.