Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.