Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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