“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“Ability without honor is useless.”
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
“En un mot, nos mains tâchent de faire dans la nature, pour ainsi dire, une autre nature.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”