When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.