If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.