Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.