Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.