“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other...”