Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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