At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

There is truth in wine and children