May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.