No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

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

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.