It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.