By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all