The average man, who does not know what to do with his life,... - Anatole France

"We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book."

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

"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."