Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Everything transitory is but an image.