We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.