A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
We are wiser than we know.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.