Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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,... ?

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.