Every epoch dreams its successor.
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.
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.