In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
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.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.