La Vita Nuova
Poem XIX
From out her eyes, wherever they may move
come spirits that are all aflame with love;
they pierce the eyes of any one that looks
and pass straight through till each one finds the heart;
upon her face you see depicted Love,
there where none dares to hold his gaze too long.
Dante, La Vita Nuova
Education is not a subject, and does not deal in subjects. It is instead a way of life.
G.K. Chesterton
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
You use all, whether we know it or not, for purposes known only to you.
St. Augustine, The Confessions
The object of learning is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
Socrates
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C.S. Lewis, Abolition of Man
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
2 Peter 1:5-10
On matters of style, swim with the current. On matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
