Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.