Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

You don't know what you don't know.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

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.

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.

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.