Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.