No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.