Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.