We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Ask the young. They know everything.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.