- "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
- "When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
- "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."
- "We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal."
- "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
- "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
- "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."
- "Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
- "If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."
- "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- "Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
- "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."
- "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."
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