In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

We must become just be doing just acts.

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.