Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.