Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.