While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.