To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.