"The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."

"Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body."

"Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

"A principle which has any soundness should stand firm not only just now, but always."

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."