The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.