By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.