One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

God is a geometrician.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.