The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.