The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.