He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.