For the possession of great wealth is of no use, either to them or to the state.

The condition of youth which is free from flattery, and at the same time not in need of the necessaries of life, is the best and most harmonious of all, being in accord and agreement with our nature, and making life to be most entirely free from sorrow.

Let parents, then, bequeath to their children not a heap of riches, but the spirit of reverence.

We, indeed, fancy that they will inherit reverence from us, if we rebuke them when they show a want of reverence.

But this quality is not really imparted to them by the present style of admonition, which only tells them that the young ought always to be reverential.