More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.