When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.

All men are by nature equal, made, all, of the same earth by the same Creator, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear to God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.