James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Degerando
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
The only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions.
There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all its real progress in perfection.