"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every word spelled out is a spark."

"Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"