Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.