A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
Aristotle. . . imputed this symphony of the heavens. . . this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. . . . But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony. . . If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.