Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

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.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.