Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.