Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.