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.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

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

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.