Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.