“Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.”

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

“May the ability to see many points of view keep us gentle.”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick.”

“If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too.”

“You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.”