"Those who do not study are only..." - Quote by Confucius

“Words are the voice of the heart.”

“Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”

“When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.”

“I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.”

“Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.”

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”

“Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.”