Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. |
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. |
Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. |
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? |
My philosophy is when in Rome, do like the Romans do - so I'll be looking cool, talking to pretty women and eating ice cream. At least I'm quite good at doing two of those things! |
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. |
No human thing is of serious importance |
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. |
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. |
No one will convince me. |
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. |
Nobody untrained in geometry may enter my house |
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. |
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. |
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable |