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- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog. — Irving Babbitt
- There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
- The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. — Plato