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.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Life should be lived as play.