What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.