"All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance."

"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."

"Wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls."

"I have good hope that there is something after death."

"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."

"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."

"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."

"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."