Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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