Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

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