When we have got it, we want something else.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.