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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.