At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.