"Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"