“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“What worries you, masters you”

“Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it”