The society of women is the element of good manners.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.