A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

Cats like men are flatterers.