Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
My friends are my estate.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.