What a man hates, he takes seriously.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.