It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Those who act receive the prizes.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.