Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.