My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.