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.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.