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.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.