Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.