There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.