To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

A person can allow a tyrannical world to bully them. One can kowtow to the demands of petty tormentors; blithely accept being the drummer boy for other people’s private parade. Alternatively, a person can seek to obtain autonomy over their life.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.