Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.