Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.