My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice...
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies...
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and choice is...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly...
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce...
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but...
Anybody can become angry - that is easy but to be angry with the right...
Education is the best provision for old age.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
The so-called modern education with all its defects however does others so much more good than it does the Negro because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
