Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
He who love touches walks not in darkness.
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.