No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

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

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.