Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?