He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.