When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.