"Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!"
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."