No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul