A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

Death is the vast perhaps.

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.