If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.