"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

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"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."

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"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

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"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."

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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

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"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. "

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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

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"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

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