Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics
The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.