If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.