Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.