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 clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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

A temperate style is alone classical.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.