"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.,."

"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"

"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams."

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

"Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."

"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."

"Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before."

"You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?"

"All is flux, nothing stays still."

"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."