Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

No man is a hero to his own valet.