To please the many is to displease the wise.
Character is inured habit.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
The wildest colts make the best horses.