Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process