"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."