No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
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.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.