If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

An honest man is always a child.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.