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

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Anybody can get hit over the head.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.