The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

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

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.