Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.