Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.