Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."