Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

The society of women is the element of good manners.