Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

God ever geometrizes.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.