If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.