. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.