A hedge between keeps friendship green.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

My body and my will are one.

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.