Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.