Kiley Watson’s Reviews > Emile, or On Education > Status Update

“But, before marrying, you must know what kind of man you want to be, what you want to spend your life doing, and what measures you want to take to assure yourself and your family of bread.”

“True love, whatever is said of it, will always be honored by men; for although its transports lead us astray, although it does not exclude odious qualities from the heart that feels it - and even produces them - it nevertheless always presupposes estimable qualities without which one would not be in a condition to feel it.”

Quote of the century in a giant book on education, “I hate books. They only teach one to talk about what one does not know.”