Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.