"What then is the proper object of education? It is to make a man fit to be a man."

"Every sentiment of love is a sentiment of pleasure."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of our existence. The man who has lived most i…"

"The child who has learned only what is taught him by others, will never be truly learned."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."