Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Come back with your shield - or on it

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.