Ability without honor has no value.
The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
The instinct of the people is right.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.