Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.