There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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.
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.