Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.