People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

Solitude begets whimsies.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.