No institution will be better than the institutor.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

A great man is always willing to be little.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Conversation is a game of circles.