The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.