Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

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.

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.