A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

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

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.