Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.