Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.