Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.