Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

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