Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Biography is the best form of history.
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.