"A good education consists in knowing how..." - Quote by Plato

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.”

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”

“Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.”

“Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.”

“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.”

“All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.”

“The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives”