Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Wit is educated insolence.