The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one

Cities are the abyss of the human species

True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind this short life counts for too little in their eyes

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know

To live is not merely to breathe it is to act it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything