"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."