Let every foot have its own shoe.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

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.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.