“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. ”

“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“Ability without honor is useless.”

“In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”