self-discovery Quotes

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.