"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."

"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."