I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.