The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

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?

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.