She soars on her own wings.

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.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'