"Education and admonition commence in the first..." - Quote by Plato

“In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.”

“What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.”

“Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?”

“Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.”

“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”

“If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.”

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.”

“A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.”