The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.