And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

I only know how little I know

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.