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.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We are what we continually do.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.