. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.