If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.