Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.