O Music! How It Grieves Me That

An Ingenious Mind Feels In Unmerited Praise The Bitterest Reproof.

No Ashes Are Lighter Than Those Of Incense, And Few Things Burn Out Sooner.

Cats Like Men Are Flatterers.

Children Are What The Mothers Are.

Be Assured That, Although Men Of Eminent Genius Have Been Guilty Of All Other Vices, None Worthy Of More Than A Secondary Name Has Ever Been A Gamester. Either An Excess Of Avarice Or A Deficiency Of What, In Physics, Is Called Excitability, Is The Cause Of It; Neither Of Which Can Exist In The Same Bosom With Genius, With Patriotism, Or With Virtue.