They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.