In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.