"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."