Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency