I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.