If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

Evils draw men together.

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

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.