A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.