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 intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Music is a defining element of character.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.