Erasmus — "The best teacher is experience."

"The highest good is to live according to one's own nature."

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

"To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with truth, his memory with useful facts, his future with hope, and his stomach with food."

"He who learns from everyone is a wise man; he who learns from no one is a fool."

"What is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk forth and play their respective parts, until the manager waves them off…"