Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.