Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

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

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.