Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.