When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The cautious seldom err.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.