To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.