To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.