- All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Character is simply habit long continued.
- There is truth in wine and children.
- Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.