“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense”

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender”

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”

“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student”