Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.