No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Knowledge is true opinion.