Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.