"No one ever teaches well who wants..." - Quote by Plato

“Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.”

“Every man is a poet when he is in love.”

“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.”

“Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.”

“My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.”

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

“Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.”

“A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”