Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.