True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, others the art of living well.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.