I personally am not conscious of my accent.
The safety of the state is the highest law.
Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
Keep cool and you will command everyone.
Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.
A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move towards our mental image of God.
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?