The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

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.

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

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

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.