Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.