Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.