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

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

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.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?