Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into ...

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.