» The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
» For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
» Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
» In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum.
» We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
» Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
» Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
» Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
» Ambition is not a vice of little people.
» When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.