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

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.