The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.