Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.