Where there's music there can be no evil.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

Comparisons are odious.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.