The soul that has no established aim loses itself

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.