"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"The best of all governments is that in which the rulers are the best and wisest, and rule according to the laws, and not according to their own arbitrary will."

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."