Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.