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

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.