We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
