The society of women is the element of good manners.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

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.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.