Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.