And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Let brother help brother.

Philosophy begins in wonder.