We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Man was not made for himself alone