If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
There is truth in wine and children
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
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.