If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
No soul willfully does wrong.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.