All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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.
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.