Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

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

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.