When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.