Wit Is The God Of Moments, But

The Opera Is Obviously The First Draft Of A Fine Spectacle; It Suggests The Idea Of One.

A Man Of Moderate Understanding, Thinks He Writes Divinely: A Man Of Good Understanding, Thinks He Writes Reasonably.

Avoid Making Yourself The Subject Of Conversation.

No Man Is So Perfect, So Necessary To His Friends As To Give Them No Cause To Miss Him Less.

From Time To Time There Appear On The Face Of The Earth Men Of Rare And Consummate Excellence, Who Dazzle Us By Their Virtue, And Whose Outstanding Qualities Shed A Stupendous Light. Like Those Extraordinary Stars Of Whose Origins We Are Ignorant, And Of Whose Fate, Once They Have Vanished, We Know Even Less, Such Men Have Neither Forebears Nor Descendants: They Are The Whole Of Their Race.