If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.