"...such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehemen…"

"Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like m…"

"All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another."

"The sensitive eye can never be able to survey, the orb of the sun, unless strongly endued with solar fire, and partic…"

"Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?…"

"We may treat of the Soul as in the body — whether it be set above it or actually within it — since the association of…"

"What measures, then, shall we adopt? What machine employ, or what reason consult by means of which we may contemplate…"

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue t…"

"When the soul has descended into generation (from its first divine condition) she partakes of evil, and is carried a …"

"It is now time, leaving every object of sense far behind, to contemplate, by a certain ascent, a beauty of a much hig…"