In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
I only know that I know nothing
Knowledge is our ultimate good.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
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.
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'