Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?