Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.