I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Life should be lived as play.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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