The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.