Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.