The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.