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.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.