Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.