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

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.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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

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

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.