... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.