What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]