Teach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain he gets mice. If he leaves it empty he gets actors.