My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.