Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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