We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.