Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

You are what you do repeatedly.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.