The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.