For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?