I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Pleasure is the bait of sin