Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

...the Gods too love a joke.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.