The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.