Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

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