The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

There is a deportment, which suits the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we quit to assume that of another

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.