Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind