Fear of women love more than hate the man.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

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.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.