Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Age merely shows what children we remain.