Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.