He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.