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

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

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.

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.

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

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.