The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

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

Excellent things are rare.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.