The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

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

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.