Reading is seeing by proxy.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.