Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.