It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.