Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

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

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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