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.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.