Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.

It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.