The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Life should be lived as play.
In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.