In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.