Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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.
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.