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

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.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

The belly has no ears.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Character is simply habit long continued.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.