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.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

God forever geometrizes.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.