If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.