• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

• Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

• We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.

• We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

• We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

• People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.