Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.