By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me

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

Excellent things are rare.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

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