The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.