Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.