Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.