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.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.