We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.