There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.