The emperor Antoninus was a practical moralist. From his youth he followed a laborious discipline, and though his high station placed him above all w… - George Long

The chief business of education... is to attempt to form good habits in children, to improve the understanding, and to check the formation of bad habits.

Besides the fact of the Christians rejecting all the heathen ceremonies, we must not forget that they plainly maintained that all the heathen religions were false. The Christians thus declared war against the heathen rites, and it is hardly necessary to observe that this was a declaration of hostility against the Roman government, which tolerated all the various forms of superstition that existed in the empire, and could not consistently tolerate another religion, which declared that all the rest were false and all the splendid ceremonies of the empire only a worship of devils.

Real learning... is a thing in which the learner is not a receiver only of words written or spoken: he must be a doer.