Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.