Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Ability without honor has no value.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.