"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you desire to be thought to be."

"I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort."