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

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.