As in learning to read, first we acquire the elements or letters separately, and afterwards their combinations, and cannot recognize reflections of them until we know the letters themselves;--in like manner we must first attain the elements or essential forms of the virtues, and then trace their combinations in life and experience.

There is a music of the soul which answers to the harmony of the world; and the fairest object of a musical soul is the fair mind in the fair body.

Some defect in the latter may be excused, but not in the former.

True love is the daughter of temperance, and temperance is utterly opposed to the madness of bodily pleasure.

Enough has been said of music, which makes a fair ending with love.
Next we pass on to gymnastics; about which I would remark, that the soul is related to the body as a cause to an effect, and therefore if we educate the mind we may leave the education of the body in her charge, and need only give a general outline of the course to be pursued.