Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

You should never think without an image.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.