Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the...
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony...
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk...
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is...
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and...
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness one of which is a lack...
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in...
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my...
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
