“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“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.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, wheth...”