It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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.