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.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.