“Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Every harlot was a virgin once

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.

We’re intellectual opposites. Well, I’m intellectual and you’re opposite.