There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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.