See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.