And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.