The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.