Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.