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

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.