Jules Michelet Quotations

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.