It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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.

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.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.