We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?