Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.