The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.