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

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.