Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

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.

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.