“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well
“If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues