A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Every animal loves itself.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.