Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.