When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him