Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.