To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Youth should be a savings bank.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.