If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.