You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

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.