Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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