Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

• In art as in love, instinct is enough.
• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
• We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
• Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.