A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
Nothing is ever too good to be true.