Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.