Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

Over the wine-dark sea.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.