Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.