Ill-favour and hatred limit the spectator to the surface, even when keen perception is added unto them; but when keen perception unites with good-will and love, it gets at the heart of man and the world; nay, it may hope to reach the highest goal of all.
Raw matter is seen by every one; the contents are found only by him who has his eyes about him; and the form is a secret to the majority.
We may learn to know the world as we please: it will always retain a bright and a dark side.
Error is continually repeating itself in action, and we must unweariedly repeat the truth in word.
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.