Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.