Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.