Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

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.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.