Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Too great haste leads us to error.
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.