Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.