I Am Indeed Amazed When

The Principal Use Of Prudence, Of Self-control, Is That It Teaches Us To Be Masters Of Our Passions, And To So Control And Guide Them That The Evils Which They Cause Are Quite Bearable, And That We Even Derive Joy From Them All.

The Greatest Minds, As They Are Capable Of The Highest Excellencies, Are Open Likewise To The Greatest Aberrations; And Those Who Travel Very Slowly May Yet Make Far Greater Progress, Provided They Keep Always To The Straight Road, Than Those Who, While They Run, Forsake It.

The Object Of Music Is A Sound. The End; To Delight, And Move Various Affections In Us.

Archimedes, That He Might Transport The Entire Globe ... Demanded Only A Point That Was Firm And Immovable; So Also, I Shall Be Entitled To Entertain The Highest Expectations, If I Am Fortunate Enough To Discover Only One Thing That Is Certain And Indubitable.

The Chief Cause Of Human Errors Is To Be Found In The Prejudices Picked Up In Childhood.