By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

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?

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.