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

“One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection”

“What worries you, masters you”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”