"Is there a perfect world?"

"'Excellence' is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'rightly' because we are 'excellent', in fact we achieve 'excellence' by acting 'rightly'."

"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."

"All learning is in the learner, not the teacher."

"The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly."

"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

"For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzling, passionate, and eternal form."

"Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has."