Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.