Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. The Post Office Girl
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Book III
The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. The Two Towers
If the knowledge which we acquired before birth was lost to us at birth, and afterwords by the use of the senses we recovered that which we previously knew, will not that which we call learning be a process of recovering our knowledge, and may not this be rightly termed recollection by us? ...Then, Simmias, our souls must have existed before they were in the form of man—without bodies, and must have had intelligence. The Trials Of Socrates
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