For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.