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

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.