Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.