Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.