The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.