The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.