“Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides”

“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”

“The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit”

“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”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”

“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise”