You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act