I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

In the beginning, all the world was America.

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.