What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.