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

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.