Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.