People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.