“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!”

“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.”

“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“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.”