Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.