“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”

“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”

“I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.”

“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”

“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.”

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

“We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”

“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.”

“Life must be lived as play.”

“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”