Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.