That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.