"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with"
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
"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."
"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."
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."