Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.