Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.