No Man Who Is Correctly Informed As

The Study Of The Properties Of Numbers, Plato Tells Us, Habituates The Mind To The Contemplation Of Pure Truth, And Raises Us Above The Material Universe. He Would Have His Disciples Apply Themselves To This Study, Not That They May Be Able To Buy Or Sell, Not That They May Qualify Themselves To Be Shopkeepers Or Travelling Merchants, But That They May Learn To Withdraw Their Minds From The Ever-shifting Spectacle Of This Visible And Tangible World, And To Fix Them On The Immutable Essences Of Things.

A Kind Of Semi-solomon, Half-knowing Everything, From The Cedar To The Hyssop.

Man Is So Inconsistent A Creature That It Is Impossible To Reason From His Beliefs To His Conduct, Or From One Part Of His Belief To Another.

The Most Beautiful Object In The World, It Will Be Allowed, Is A Beautiful Woman.

How Well Horatius Kept The Bridge In The Brave Days Of Old.