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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. — Samuel Johnson
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- 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