Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in