It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.