The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.