The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.