» I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
» We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
» Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
» How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
» Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
» To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
» The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
» Childhood is the sleep of reason.
» The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''
» Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.