Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.