All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
A work well begun is half-ended.
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.